ARRA Change Justification Memo

USDA
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United states
Dspartment of
Agriculture

SUBJECT:

Food and

3 2009

- OMB# 0584-0083
Justification for a Change in Burden Hours
Operating Guidelines, Forms and Waivers

Nntdtion
Service

TO:

3101 Park
Center Drive

Alexandria, VA

Julie Wise
Officer
Office of Management and Budget Desk
Offr" of Information and Regulatory'Affairs
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)

22302-1500

THROUGH: Rachelle Ragland-Greene
FNS Clearance Officer
Food and Nutrition Service (FNS)
Ruth Brown
OCIO Desk Officer

USDA
FROM:

Karen J. w^wr{CA+)
Director
Division
Program Accountability"and Administration

Forms
in burden hours for the operating Guidelines'
This justification requests an increase
American
the
t"p"ti"g -t:qli:tT""ts resulting from
and Waivers collecti'on due to additional
Law 111-5') Section 101(c) of
Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ennej#z9ol 1nri91i9
ior State agencies that administer the
ARRA provided increased administratirre funding
use Standard Form
ptogt* iSryOtl
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
-Jlt^t"ittncies
use of
Ofr'fB+ 0348-0039' to report on their
(SF) 269 Financial Status Report, uppro\o.i
ARRA
means of accounting separately for
such administrative funding. As a simple
quarter' one
to complete two sF-269',s each
funding, FNS intends to ask these agencies
Beginning
funding'
regular State administrative
covering the ARRA-furrdr, and one for their
Financial
th; SF-269 to the SF- 425' Federal
October l,2009,SNAP will transition from
ufptouta 0584-NEW' Federal Financial Report
Report, OMB# 0348-0061, unless OMB h;;
of the SF-425 has been submitted to
tJirt"
Forms (FNS 77s and 7784). en.*..iiion
"tt
OMB'
the Office of Federal Financial Management'

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it
to the.form' to the approved data elements
This additional reporting will require no change
to
tftange in burden is limited to the need
includes, or to the i,r-U"., of respond.*iift"
respondent'
for each
q,rurtrr, dfiiing the nim-ber of responses
provide,*o ,"rponr.,
Each
responses'
"u"t
i result of these incieased
We anticipate an increase of 397 .5t o,r* u,
In
year'
per
and- will provide 5 responses
respondent will spend 1.5 hours p", ,"rforrre
this
for
ruf number of b'"d"tt hours for reporting
aggregate, this wili increase the fotal utut
which brings the grand total to 3'262 hours'
collection from 2,g48-5 hours to 3,246iours,
which includes 16 hours for recordkeeping'

AN EOUAL OPPORTUNIW EMPLOYER

Julie Wise

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FY 2009' Also'
instrument SF-269 (FS) in use for
collection
data
the
of
copy
is
a
Attached
beginning in FY
plans to use to reprace tir. sr-zoq @S)
attached is the FNS-77g which FNS
period
for tire FNS-778 after the comment
2010. FNS will be formally r"q.r"rtirrg
expires in June 2009'

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